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The Park together with Wrangell/St. Elias National Park (Alaska), and the Kluane National Park Reserve (Canada) and Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park (Canada), became part of a 24 million acre World Heritage Site, the largest internationally
protected area in the world. |
To say that Muir discovered Glacier Bay would be a misnomer. In the oral history
of the Hoonah Tlingit people there is the story of how they lived for 15,000
years in Sit'eeti Geeyi (Glacier Bay) until the sudden advance
of the glaciers caused them to flee their home and settle in what is now
Hoonah (a community approximately 35 miles southeast and home to Icy Srait Point).
Now the glaciers are receding once again and the Bay is opening up once
more. Glacier Bay is a magic wonderland. A chance to visit the world as it was at the end of the Ice Age. Here you can see a magnificent land of snow and ice, teeming with birds and marine mammals. Here you can see how the earth recovers from the icy fingers of an Ice Age to again become a rich forested landscape. |
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In 1879 when the noted naturalist John Muir came to the head of what is now Glacier Bay, he found a newly formed bay occupied by a huge glacier (there had been none 100 years previously when Captain George Vancouver visited.Muir was enchanted. He returned frequently, built a cabin here and observed the recession of the glacier and the beginnings of what is now Glacier Bay. Muir stimlated an interest in the area that led, over the course of time to the creation of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. |
Glacier calving in Glacier Bay National Park View map of Glacier Bay National Park |
Glacier Bay National Park offers a step back
into the time of the great Ice Age that held much of North America in its icy
grip. In Glacier Bay you can cruise to the front of an active glacier and thrill
to the sights and sounds of a calving glacier.You have several choices of how
to experience 'the Bay" depending on your style of travel, budget and desired
level of activity.Several cruise ships have itineraries that visit, you can
take a flightseeing trip or a day trip or longer from Juneau, Haines or Skagway and for the adventurous a five to seven day kayak trip to the face of a glacier. |
What you can do in Glacier Bay: see whales tour to the glaciers go fishing view wildlife sea-kayak hike around Bartlett Cove Visit art galleries (in Gustavus) enjoy really fresh seafood cruise on a private boat watch glaciers cave |